The Department of Veterans Affairs has “not yet fully implemented 16 of the 18 recommendations” for its new Oracle Health electronic health record that the Government Accountability Office has made since 2017, according to the GAO’s new status report released Monday.
However, testimony provided to lawmakers this week by the VA and its current EHR vendor, based on system operating metrics over nearly two years and successes implementing the new EHR at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago last year during a long pause on wider rollout across VA medical centers, points to readiness to deploy at 13 more facilities in 2026.
First up for the scheduled second-quarter transition to the new EHR are four VA medical facilities in Michigan – Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Detroit and Saginaw…